Should parents of recent juvenile felons be publicly exposed?
Objective: Create consequences for poor parenting.
@jurban That's a hard question to answer. I don't have enough data to confidently give an answer either way, really.
What I will say is that modern societal and household dynamics appear to minimize the role of parents in their children's lives (whether by design or by happenstance I cannot say);
Most parents spend very little time with their children (in many cases almost none), especially compared to what was typical historically, greatly diminishing the likely degree of culpability.
@jurban We as a species and as a society have a long track record of attributing grossly excessive significance to individuals' direct roles in both positive and negative events/outcomes, while simultaneously completely (or near-completely) ignoring collective, systemic, coincidental, indirect, & natural factors - even where the evidence suggests one of the latter may have actually been the sole determinant.
We heap blame and commendations on people even when they had little-to-no real impact.
@IrelandTorin
I agree, but I can only do so for anecdotal scenarios.
If we were considering influencing the culture, I think we can agree that "good" parenting (if we could define that well enough to agree!) would have a mitigating effect on juvenile crime trends.
Outside influence are part of the equation. Just how heavily weighted is uncertain.
@jurban I think it goes far further than just culture: I firmly believe the *entire framework* of the modern world's approach to life needs a redo.
That encompasses everything from working schedules to urban planning, parental expectations to economic policy, education paradigm to transportation, household structure to political system, & everything in between.
Seems to me we're doing life all wrong: we ignore 80,000 years of history where it can teach us, yet refuse to change awful practices.